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Unable to defeat Thanos, Tony Stark gets sent back in time to fix the last decade.
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Thousands of miles away, a band of Ten Rings soldiers marches across the border of Gulmira, not for the first time.

They are not really prepared for an assault from the air. They are prepared to run and hide, and probably take hostages.

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The flight would have been very boring without Yinsen and Jarvis to talk to on the way there. Suit flight is also not the most comfortable for long distances, if there wasn’t a need for secrecy Tony would just have caught a private jet then suited up when he got there.

Eventually, he does get close enough to Gulmira for Jarvis to highlight a group of Ten Rings soldiers on the HUD. “Yinsen, targets are in the village, suggesting a visit here was a good call.” Tony sends back to Malibu over comms.

Tony flies very high to try and virtually tag as many soldiers as possible without them noticing. He assigns each of them a micro missile, lethal, unless they are too close to any civilians in which case they get some knockout gas micro missiles. Then he launches all the assigned missiles and simultaneously drops to the ground, reaching the ground just as the missiles impact their targets mostly all at the same time. A very dramatic entrance for his ‘first’ mission as iron man.

Any soldier that was under too much cover to have been tagged from the air Tony will blast with repulsor blasts from his hands and with super accurate AI controlled fire from his shoulder SMGs.

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A few of them have their own missiles to shoot at him! Far fewer both have missiles and have not run away or died, but there are still one or two who will shoot missiles in the hope that they will do anything.

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Tony can blast them out of the air easily enough. As long as its not a very high volume of missiles then the point defence systems can take care of missiles coming from any direction. The shoulder guns or repulsors on his back taking care of whatever direction Tony Isn’t facing.

When its the last few stragglers left alive Tony switches to less than lethal rubber rounds for his shoulder guns, he wants to interrogate a few of them. 

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They would prefer not to be interrogated, but they'll probably be captured fairly quickly.

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Tony will use Jarvis to translate and VERY LOUDLY blare out his demands through the suit speakers into the half dozen or so most common languages most likely to be used by Ten Rings cells in this area. He will demand they tell him where their base is through very loud speakers while menacingly charging his repulsors at them and letting the electronic whine of the charging weapon rise in pitch.

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Most of them don't respond with anything more than obscenities, but one who is particularly frightened will give him the location of the base.

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If any Gulmirans, Gulmirites? Gulmir? If there are any locals who have come outside to watch the soldiers who have been demanding tribute and killing their people get blown up and yelled at by a golden and red robot man, Tony will put the discarded weapons of the fallen Ten Rings soldiers in their hands, wave at the captured soldiers, and will tell them to do whatever they want to the soldiers. The amount of mercy the soldiers deserve should be decided by their victims.

If nobody has come outside yet then Tony will just leave them tied up with a spool of nanotube wire that he had stored under an armor panel. 

Tony has a base to crush, so he blasts off towards where the one intimidated soldier mentioned their base was hidden.

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That's cute, he thought it was actually the location of the base! Now they'll just escape from the rope and regroup... wait, they can't, they're surrounded by some very angry people who do not appear to have much in the way of mercy for the people who killed their families. Oops.

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That lying asshole! Theres no base here! Well, it’s not like Tony actually gave the soldier anything for the ‘information’, it’s hard to feel cheated for the nothing he got for free. 

Time to search the old fashioned way like he was going to do anyway. He flies high while Jarvis scans the areas using suit cams and sensors for any traces of hidden bases. The suit can do much better recon than any shitty military drone using a shitty 2000’s quality camera, and Jarvis is essentially a digital sherlock holmes, able to put tiny clues together to infer where people are hiding. Tony also has the suit searching for traces of his Stark Industries Missiles, most of them have some quirk that is easy to search for, like the radiation of palladium.

 

”Do you happen to know the direction these guys would usually come towards your village Yinsen? It’d give me someplace to start.” Tony comms back to Malibu for help, also because it’s kind of lonely just flying and searching and it’s nice to talk.

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Yinsen points him in the right direction.

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J.A.R.V.I.S. manages to find it in about an hour, with help from surveillance by the Iron Warrior. However, this allows the Ten Rings to see the Iron Warrior, and they start making preparations and shooting harmless bullets at the enormous suit.

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Well Tony doesn’t want anyone getting a close look at the Iron Warrior quite yet, so he tells Jarvis to get it out of there and heads towards the base himself.

Tony preps his missiles using the targeting data Jarvis gathered. Then he does the same trick of landing at the same time as the missiles impact the soldiers, blasting away at anyone not taken down by the missiles. It worked great as shock and awe last time so no reason not to use it again. Though he goes a little heavier on the repulsor blasting to conserve micro missile ammo, in case they find more bases today.

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It will not be too difficult to break through the base. There are still a few more soldiers, as well as some metal walls which he can probably melt through.

At the end, he can find the recently-promoted-temporary-leader-while-things-get-reorganized of the Ten Rings' Afghanistan branch, Abu Bakaar! Who he may recognize as one of the goons who tortured him in the cave.

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It’s beardy guy! Tony remembers beardy guy very well from both versions of his kidnapping. Well, lets kick him through a wall then, for old times sakes.

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And they will also run into some computers, which J.A.R.V.I.S. can probably get to work on hacking to find more Ten Rings bases.

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Tony lets Jarvis hack away at their files. The last time he went on this crusade he just blew up any cell that popped their head up long enough to be caught on satellite, hopefully this data gives him more of the hidden bases he might have missed in the last timeline.

If there are any leftover Stark Industries weapons, or weapons caches in general, laying around Tony will make sure to blow those up before leaving for whatever other bases Jarvis found.

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And more bases he shall find.

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By the time he's finished with them, the news will already be frantically reporting rumors of some sort of strange new weaponry being used in areas controlled by the Ten Rings - weaponry shaped like a person. Most people do not actually think this "Iron Man" really exists, but they're certainly suspicious, especially with all the chaos going on recently between the Ten Rings, Tony Stark, and Obadiah Stane.

So Tony may need to get started on his press conference pretty soon.

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